Showering the Youngmans

After our trip to St. Louis, we headed down to the 'boro for a long weekend. Beth and I shared hostess duties in throwing a baby shower for my cousin's wife, Jess, who is due with their first baby in August. Beth and I had so much fun planning this event! We had a baby carriage/green and brown theme and we just ran with it! We held it at Beth's beautiful new home and I think everything turned out great.

This is the diaper bag that we got Jess. Under that is the spread from Grammy Gaye--lots of essentials for the baby's new room. Jess had picked out these colors a while ago for the nursery, so we drew our inspiration from that.

We bought lots of different baby outfits in our color theme in varying sizes and used them as decoration:

The best part about these decorations is that they didn't go to waste! Jess got to take them all home to put on cute little Baby Y. for the next year.

We had green and brown M&M's on the tables, along with baby carriages that I painstakingly traced and cut out, with the help of my awesome Daddy. Thanks, Dad!

The spread. I loved these beautiful vases and flowers that Beth found, all in the right colors, of course!

The cake and favor table.

A close-up of the cake--it says "Baby Youngman is rolling in!" It is kind of a re-creation of the invitations we sent. It was made by a woman in Murphysboro, in case anyone there needs a new cake lady!

A close-up of the favors--brown and green M&M's in a little bag. The carriage says, "Baby Y. is rolling in, thanks so much for showering him!"



Beth, Jess, and myself

Only a few more weeks until we meet the newest member of the family! I, for one, am ecstatic and can not wait!!!

Showered with Love

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of my cousin Beth's shower that we had while I was home. I started to put all my photos on here and there were just so many so I just decided to do a few of the details that we worked so hard on! Check out "The Brooks Family" link for a few other photos if you like. We had a great time putting the shower together and an even better time at the shower!

Beth and the hostesses from L to R: Jessica, Melinda, Beth, Megan, Erin, Brooke, and me.

We had sort of a dessert theme going on. We had different types of desserts to eat so we carried the theme over to the decorations. Jessica made diaper cakes for all the centerpieces on the tables. She made 8 cakes in all and each of them had a different theme. This is the Baby Einstein cake. We loved the idea because Beth can use everything on it so nothing went to waste! Jess did an awesome job! She spent HOURS and HOURS putting them all together. We hated to take them apart the next day!

This was the favor that I made. It's an iced cookie in a little bag. I ordered the labels from the same place I got the invites so they would match. I thought they turned out great.

The cupcakes which were a joint effort by myself and my friend, Molly. She made the little booties on them out of icing! I couldn't quite keep my hand steady enough to do it so she stepped in and did an awesome job! Everyone thought they were plastic! I couldn't have gotten any of my baking done without Miss Molly! I did the "Cade" writing on them.

Here's the cake I made. I am really starting to get into this cake decorating thing! Although I do wince a little when they have to be cut into! But I'm starting to get over that a little. :)